powerful websites - effective designs
Google (in their plan to take over the world) has one of the best email systems you can find: Gmail. Their spam filter cannot be beat, and the integration with all of their other apps (online documents, calendars, etc.) is amazing. Plus – you can store MASSIVE amounts of data on there. My accounts have around 7GB of storage – and it keeps growing! I know people who use it as a...
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Floating Point Media is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor at the third Ignite Fort Collins on November 11! Our very own Steve Martin spoke at the previous Ignite event, and he liked the whole thing so much we decided to sponsor the next one. Ignite is a great event for thinking people: 14 presentations – 5 minutes each – 20 auto-advancing PowerPoint slides per presentation...
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Once again, Seth Godin is full of great advice. His recent post “Things to ask before you redo your website” has a list of brilliant questions you should ask not ONLY when doing a redesign, but when building any site at all. As I often say, when designing a website the last thing you should do is design. Here’s the list answer these questions and you’ll increase the...
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I was recently at a networking event here in town where I had the pleasure to meet the owner of another local web design company. Really nice lady, great website, etc. However, the first words out of her mouth (after “Hi, my name is…”) were, “So, what’s your Alexa rank?” “Ummm… well…” I said. “I don’t...
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Ever confused by some of the jargon web designers throw around all the time? RSS, CSS, iframe, nesting, etc. If it doesn’t make much sense, then you need to check out this awesome post on Smashing magazine with a massive glossary of web design jargon. Happy...
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Lest you question the importance/validity of user testing, listen to this: I was recently listening to the Boagworld podcast (great podcast, by the way) and they mentioned a conversation that one of the guys had with Jason Fried (of 37 Signals fame). 37 Signals has a whole range of online services, all of which have a “Free” option and/or a “xx Days Free Trial”...
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